Safeguarding Body’s Funds Cut

By Gregg Ryan
Church Times
February 21, 2014

http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2014/21-february/news/world/safeguarding-body%E2%80%99s-funds-cut

THE former head of the Roman Catholic Church'schild-safeguarding body in Ireland, Ian Elliott, has accused someelements in the Church of cutting funding to the National Board forthe Safeguarding of Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland(NBSCCCI), to hinder further investigations.

He said that some religious bodies used covert means toundermine the board's work by reducing funding from ˆ678,000 in2010 to ˆ596,000 in 2012. In his six-year tenure, he issued severalscathing reports of ...